Trashing the Planet: How Science Can Help Us Deal With Acid Rain, Depletion of the Ozone, and the Soviet Threat Among Other Things

Ray, Dixy Lee;Guzzo, Louis R.

ISBN 10: 0895265443 / ISBN 13: 9780895265449

Published by Gateway Books, Washington, D.C., U.S.A., 1990

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206pp including index A common sense grasp on conservation issues where science and politics overlap Previous owner's imprint stamp near bottom outside edge of front facing page, otherwise book is AS NEW.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Trashing the Planet: How Science Can Help Us Deal With Acid Rain, Depletion of the Ozone, and the Soviet Threat Among Other Things
• Publisher: Gateway Books, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0895265443
• ISBN 13: 9780895265449
• Binding: Cloth Hardback
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Nature
  • Science
  • Political Science

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Synopsis

Exposes how little the public actually knows about the environment

Reviews

Some of the authors' major premises are that nuclear power is a safe and cheap source of energy; that acid rain is a vastly exaggerated problem; that chemical pesticides are not as dangerous as they have been made out to be; and that worry over the ozone hole is just an environmental scare tactic. Ray, a marine biologist, former chair of the Atomic Energy Commission, and Washington's governor when Mount St. Helens erupted, has a long history of offending conservationists, and most of this book, written with Guzzo, a writer and adviser to Ray during her governorship, is a recitation of statistics and research studies that prove her points. This recitation makes the book tedious, and it is troubling that there are no footnotes or bibliography. A researcher could spend weeks trying to search out the studies mentioned. Nevertheless, libraries may want this as an alternative to the growing mass of green literature.
- Sue McKimm, Cuya hoga Cty. P.L., Cleveland
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